Texas and Region

Posted: November 6, 2011 - 12:01am

Texas&Region

ROCKPORT

A couple killed in an apartment building fire this week had just moved to the Texas coast in hopes of living out a retirement dream.

The Corpus Christi Caller-Times reports that 68-year-old Stephen Michael Henry and 57-year-old Marsha A. Henry, who also had a house in San Antonio, died early Thursday in an apartment building fire in downtown Rockport. They took the apartment about three months ago.

Their son Graham Henry said his parents “loved the Texas coast.”

On Friday, investigators sifted through charred wood, metal and the belongings of nearly 20 people who were displaced in the blaze. The cause remains unknown, but officials do not believe it involved a criminal act.

Stephen Henry was a retired newspaper writer and former English teacher. His wife was a homemaker.

FORT WORTH

A 32-year-old man shot by a narcotics officer during a shootout at his Arlington home last year has been sentenced to life in prison.

Kory Michael Gautreaux was convicted of aggravated assault on a peace officer and possessing a controlled substance over 400 grams with intent to deliver. Besides the life sentence Friday for firing at police, he received a 75-year prison term and a $25,000 fine.

The shootout occurred in April 2010 when officers executed a search warrant at Gautreaux’s home. At one point, Gautreaux leaned down as though he was going to drop his gun, then quickly raised back up and began firing. An officer shot him in the leg.

Texas prosecutors said Gautreaux has previous felony convictions in Louisiana for possessing large amounts of methamphetamine.